Word: touvier
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...with the new law. Not only does Papon's release raise questions about France's willingness to confront accusations of recurrent anti-Semitism, it also suggests inequity in the justice system. Klaus Barbie, Germany's wartime head of the SS in Lyon, and pro-Nazi French militia leader Paul Touvier were both allowed to die of cancer in prison during the 1990s. But neither of those men had friends in the French power élite, nor did they have the March 2002 law that Papon's stable of lawyers could exploit. Emboldened by last week's ruling, his legal team...